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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

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It’s just that they look like a big bmI, but they lost 15, 2030 pounds. Sometimes the subtle infection kills them, and they get hypertensive and they die, or they die of arrhythmias and sudden death. And occasionally I get people calling me and saying, you know, I see a patient who is very chubby. But their albumin is too.

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